While German correctional officers emphasize humanizing their inmates, American correctional officers' tactics lean toward denigrating.
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First-line supervisors of correctional officers directly supervise and coordinate activities of correctional officers and jailers.
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"Our correctional officers and supervisory correctional officers are trained to notice things out of place that don't seem quite right," said Desel.
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Inside the facility he'll only have contact with correctional officers.
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The bus was carrying 31 offenders and two correctional officers.
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Rather than therapists, correctional officers and specialists lead the sessions.
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A lot of it was due to the correctional officers.
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And many of them were filling in for correctional officers.
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To avoid layoffs, correctional officers were transferred or offered early retirement.
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Several correctional officers wrote letters appealing that his life be spared.
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"They would be performing the functions of correctional officers," Gregg said.
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Inside the jail, correctional officers escorted Rivera about, buffering his every move.
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Correctional officers and administrators as main characters, and make them occasionally sympathetic!
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That estimate includes more than 41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers.
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While some correctional officers wear gloves or a mask, others have nothing.
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Correctional officers sit in glass offices called cubes above the cell blocks.
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MICHAEL POWERS President New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association Albany
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He is also responsible for repeated assaults on fellow inmates and correctional officers.
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That figure would include more than 41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers.
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Correctional officers in Alabama, California, Georgia, Michigan and New York have tested positive.
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Jose Nieves: He has prosecuted correctional officers, police officers and military service members.
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So, how do correctional officers view role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons?
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CNN has reached out to both correctional officers but has not heard back.
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Many of the younger correctional officers were broadly sympathetic to the prisoners' plight.
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The state has six federal prisons whose correctional officers are working without pay.
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What they do, according to O*NET: Supervise correctional officers, prison guards, and jailers.
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But the main way is the old-fashioned way—through cops and correctional officers.
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"They don't have any compassion," Herring said of her son's treatment by correctional officers.
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Both Hayes and Boesky said correctional officers have a difficult job overseeing suicidal individuals.
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That makes no sense because every year we lose 2,600 of these correctional officers.
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The union, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, declined to comment.
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She believes the case could indicate that the correctional officers violated the eighth amendment.
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At the academy, they teach correctional officers not to get physically involved without backup.
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Identifying as homosexual, or exhibiting homosexual behavior, may result in harassment by the correctional officers.
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Orta has reported constant abuse and harassment from correctional officers since he's been locked up.
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The inmates were transported by TDCJ buses, accompanied by correctional officers and other staff members.
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KFSN-TV, an ABC affiliate, said the two people who were wounded were correctional officers.
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Maybe you're pissed at the correctional officers for constantly putting their power above your humanity.
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I want all the correctional officers to ask you: 'What were you singing last night?
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Prosecutors painted a picture of two experienced correctional officers who failed to perform basic duties.
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The prisoners were being transported by bus and accompanied by correctional officers and other staff.
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So it wasn't until that August that correctional officers drove Morgan through the prison gates.
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Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee said that number will include more than 41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and thousands of other law enforcement and correctional officers.
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Working in the correctional officers' cafeteria, where guards are served steak, is something of a promotion.
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They overpowered correctional officers Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue before murdering them with their own guns.
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According to Delaware Online, five correctional officers were taken hostage at around 10:30am Wednesday morning.
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The search took place in front of male correctional officers, male and female cadets, and civilians.
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And I actually do believe it should be illegal to target police officers and correctional officers.
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Now he's serving food at the correctional officers' cafeteria, which has higher-end food, including steaks.
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At some prisons, pregnant correctional officers are required to work unless they provide a doctor's excuse.
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Two correctional officers were charged this week with making false records and conspiracy over the incident.
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Now, his widow, LaToya Johnson, is suing the county, the sheriff's office, and several correctional officers.
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The stewards are uniformed correctional officers tasked with overseeing the prisoners who prepare and serve our meals.
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We raced past concrete walls, barbed wire, and exercise areas, overlooked by armed correctional officers in watchtowers.
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Ash rained down on the men, on the American troops, the Iraqi detainees, the Iraqi correctional officers.
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Here come the spoilers: The prisoners have taken over Litchfield and are holding the correctional officers hostage.
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Correctional officers, like hundreds of thousands of federal employees, have been working for four weeks without paychecks.
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Correctional officers who can't pay their debts are considered at risk for bribery by inmates or gangs.
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On Tuesday, the complex had five to 10 staff members filling in as correctional officers, Tarovisky said.
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Often, actual hardcore porn mags are smuggled in by correctional officers looking to make some extra money.
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She describes how some correctional officers embedded in her psychiatric unit antagonize patients and occasionally thwart care.
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Thomas and Noel, the only two correctional officers on duty, do not perform the required 12 a.m.
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"Every day, correctional officers report for public service that is often demanding and under-appreciated," he said.
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After finding the shop door barricaded, correctional officers entered through a different door and saw Johnson, who surrendered.
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Correctional officers told investigators that inmates often will remove their shirts when they are involved in a fight.
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One of the inmates disarmed and fatally shot both correctional officers before the two prisoners made off with .
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Throughout this period, she alleges correctional officers refused to give her pants or sanitary napkins, despite repeated requests.
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In late August, subpoenas were sent to correctional officers at the jail where he died, according to CNN.
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As many as 20 correctional officers at the jail have been subpoenaed in the case, the network reports.
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I worked as a librarian in a state prison for men where there were many women correctional officers.
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Correctional officers who engaged in or condoned misbehavior were tracked, investigated, often dismissed and sometimes faced criminal charges.
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In my practice, I have often been frustrated by the incompetence of certain BOP correctional officers and management.
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I would see correctional officers walk by and pretend not to notice; they aren't paid enough to care.
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Everything was different: There were more blankets, the toilet paper wasn't as cheap, and correctional officers were everywhere.
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Jerry Brown to sign a bill prohibiting male correctional officers from conducting pat down searches on female prisoners.
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They are supervised and given orders by correctional officers who are not trained to handle the mentally ill.
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Verizon Wireless, the gun company Glock, the California Correctional Officers Union, Kevlar manufacturer DuPont, Harley-Davidson, and Warner Bros.
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Last year, three correctional officers were fired after authorities said they stabbed an inmate four times in the torso.
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According to the restaurant's manager, Silvia Polleri, the stylish dining room was a former conference room for correctional officers.
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For comparison, 85 people in protective service — police officers, security guards, correctional officers — died by homicide the same year.
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It's a mercenary operation, now staffed by mercenaries — ex-military correctional officers who see themselves as an occupying force.
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I've been on both sides of the police brutality thing, to be honest with you... I've assaulted [correctional] officers.
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Yet both former inmates and correctional officers agree: D&D is more common in prison than you might imagine.
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"There are not a sufficient number of correctional officers, and most of their problems stem from that issue," he said.
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Alternative Sentencing Center clients technically are not inmates, and there are no correctional officers in that wing of the jail.
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Median annual wage: $62,500Projected job growth through 2026: - 8 percent These workers supervise the activities of correctional officers and jailers.
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Among those who would be required to work are 21625,2900 law enforcement and correctional officers, including almost 220006,2202 FBI agents.
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Others were sold drugs by correctional officers and harassed if they attempted to practice prosocial concepts they learned in programming.
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The MCC has dealt with understaffing under President Donald Trump's administration, and has been unable to hire new correctional officers.
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But more than 22020,000 government workers would be expected to work with suspended pay, including law enforcement and correctional officers.
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As VICE News reported Tuesday, the MCC is operating with less than 70 percent of the correctional officers it needs.
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The complex has 403 correctional officers, but a further 42 officer positions are vacant, Tarovisky, the local union official, said.
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As it turns out, that wasn't the first time correctional officers have suggested D&D could pose a security threat.
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Not only were there fewer correctional officers, but they were also trained less than officers at public prisons, he said.
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After Jared was beat up by a fellow inmate in January, he was transferred to the cafeteria reserved for correctional officers.
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Over the course of the video, Capers was approached by correctional officers several times, but he was not given medical treatment.
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The formula meant a huge increase in prison personnel during the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the ranks of correctional officers.
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The staffing problems have frequently resulted in workers like teachers or nurses guarding inmates, even though they are not correctional officers.
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But the statement was fair: I just don't think that you should be able to target police officers and correctional officers.
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A full staff would normally be about 211 correctional officers, according to a spokesperson for the prison reached by VICE News.
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A full staff would normally be about 20143 correctional officers, according to a spokesperson for the prison reached by VICE News.
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At least 50 women who have visited Rikers Island have joined a lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted by correctional officers.
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Law enforcement sources tell us correctional officers at the prison in San Diego County responded and found Sirhan with stab wounds.
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Ms. Bencebi, the case manager in Brooklyn, said workers seldom received warning before being tapped to fill in for correctional officers.
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There was the way certain correctional officers took a special interest in which female inmates worked on the overnight cleaning crew.
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Many Facebook users identified themselves on Facebook as correctional officers, posted about their jobs, and shared photos of themselves in uniform.
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Human Rights Watch reported that correctional officers left more than 600 inmates in one building without supervision to weather the storm.
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But a union representing prison workers says the violence should highlight what it says are two major staffing issues: Dozens of authorized correctional officers' positions are vacant at the Hazelton prison complex, and, like at other federal prisons, staff such as maintenance workers and nurses are stepping in as guards when insufficient numbers of regular correctional officers are available.
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Most degrading is that they are often watched by male officers, and face rampant sexual abuse at the hands of correctional officers.
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The correctional officers with you respond that they've thrown the linens — holding the small body of your unborn child — in the trash.
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While some call it torture, others say that it's a necessary tool for the safety of both correctional officers and other prisoners.
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Holman also had only 71 correctional officers on staff, almost 43 percent fewer than the 166 personnel they are authorized to employ.
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Some prisons are so pressed for correctional officers that they regularly compel teachers, nurses, secretaries and other support staff to step in.
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Several women incarcerated at the M.D.C. said that a few correctional officers did little to hide their sexual interest in certain inmates.
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The correctional officers treat prisoners with positive reinforcement and uphold all inmates' right to privacy by knocking on a cell before entering.
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Given the low pay for correctional officers in Mississippi, at Parchman and other state prisons we have the poor guarding the poor.
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As you know ... he claims FCI Miami was a living hell, and he's blaming correctional officers for much of his alleged misfortunes.
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Current correctional officers also posted what appeared to be private medical information about transgender inmates in decidedly dehumanizing ways, Injustice Watch found.
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The state released a version of the photo that blurred the faces of the trainees, in a class to become correctional officers.
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Correctional officers aren't expected to know how to appropriately handle medical conditions like cancer, but that isn't the case with mental health.
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Typically, inmates who work in the prison kitchen prepare and serve meals, but correctional officers have assumed those duties during the strike.
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AFSCME Council 5, the union that represents Minnesota state correctional officers, said in a statement it has also made requests for more staffing.
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Despite all the correctional officers out there, you law-abiding citizens may never have had a chance to meet one in the wild.
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The prison, which houses violent criminals, has had several incidents in the last several years resulting in injuries or skirmishes with correctional officers.
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They say he was stabbed in his cell, then dragged into the prison yard by correctional officers who left him there to die.
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Like other federal employees, correctional officers are facing difficult decisions between purchasing food, gas to get to work and paying bills, Young said.
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The next year, one of that report's authors was chosen to lead the department, to the dismay of the Alaska Correctional Officers Association.
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In the last two years of the Obama administration, the bureau increased the number of correctional officers it hired, with 20163,644 in 2016.
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Correctional officers in Mississippi are the lowest-paid in their profession nationwide, according to government data, with a mean hourly wage of $14.83.
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The correctional officers were arrested nearly a year and a half after an inmate was found severely beaten and died six weeks later.
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I was making more money; managers earned as much as $803,000 a year, while starting correctional officers back then began at around $24,000.
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As a result of things that Noel has seen happen on the show, ten correctional officers were either fired for their behavior or resigned.
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In response to that, Porter told me, a local service economy offering food and lodging to commuting correctional officers, or visiting relatives, usually arises.
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Also on Tuesday, two correctional officers tasked with watching Epstein the day he died were charged with falsifying prison records, the Miami Herald reports.
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This was the case for Correctional Officers Jose Rivera and Eric Williams, who were stabbed to death by convicted murderers already serving life sentences.
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TWO CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS RESPONSIBLE FOR GUARDING FINANCIER JEFFREY EPSTEIN THE NIGHT HE KILLED HIMSELF IN HIS JAIL CELL HAVE BEEN CRIMINALLY CHARGED -- NY TIMES
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Newly hired correctional officers undergo a rigorous training, which proves to be beneficial because there are minimal assaults recorded between inmates and staff members.
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Twenty-five Baltimore correctional officers on Tuesday were indicted on charges of excessive force on prisoners in state-run jails, The Associated Press reported.
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Just as we rely on our police, firefighters and correctional officers, 9-1-1 operators go to work every day to keep our communities safe.
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During the execution itself, correctional officers are responsible for everything, from strapping the prisoner's ankles and wrists to a gurney to administering the lethal chemicals.
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Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center have been charged with falsifying prison records.
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Epstein was briefly put on suicide watch after correctional officers found him semi-conscious in his cell several weeks ago in an apparent suicide attempt.
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They also wrote that Congress gave the BOP "additional funds to support additional correctional officers for each housing unit at high security institutions" since 2016.
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The best I could do was run certain correctional officers off the gallery with a song that sounded like the whining of a dying cat.
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Choi, 60, arrived at the prosecutor's office on Tuesday morning in handcuffs and a surgical mask and wearing a dark coat, escorted by correctional officers.
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But it's not unusual for an inmate to be put under another level of observation, and be checked on every 30 minutes by correctional officers.
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A handful of Democratic senators, along with correctional officers at federal correctional facilities, have called on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to do the same.
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He was assigned to the cell closest to the correctional officers' desk in the SHU's common area, which is about 15 feet from the cell.
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Prosecutors said Noel and Thomas, the only correctional officers on duty in Epstein's unit, appeared to have fallen asleep for two hours during their shift.
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To be sure, correctional officers have an extremely difficult job, and it's important that they are able to go to work without being in danger.
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And with Rikers, grim headlines about inmates who committed suicide or correctional officers standing trial for inmates' deaths (often mentally ill ones) are a frequent sight.
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Pasquotank was 28 percent short of its full complement of 266 correctional officers around the time of last month&aposs attack, according to Correction Department figures.
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Correctional officers and prison staff represented by AFL-CIO are doing hard work, sometimes without the necessary training and support, and sometimes in unsafe, overcrowded conditions.
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At the center, she went through an ID check and a simple health examination, and correctional officers took a mugshot, as they do with other inmates.
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But correctional officers continue to violate the law because they're not punished when they do so, says David Fathi, director of the ACLU's National Prison Project.
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Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records.
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Barr&aposs comments came days after two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding the wealthy financier when he died were charged with falsifying prison records.
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The facility where Epstein was held — the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan — was understaffed, with less than 70 percent of the correctional officers it needed.
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"Not only is the Jail under staffed, but the correctional officers lack training to carry out their functions in a minimally safe manner," the lawsuit claims.
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"Closures do not in any way equate to a decrease in number of incarcerated people," said Michael Powers, the president of the state's correctional officers union.
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Five other correctional officers were also indicted that month on separate offenses related to allegations of beating up inmates, falsifying records, and denying inmates medical care.
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The older kids set the younger kids on one another, and the correctional officers would tear into us with racist abuse, trying to goad a reaction.
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In addition to the images of the nine correctional officers, Injustice Watch provided the names of 18 other employees, 16 current and two former, by email.
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Josh and his mom claim the OC jail correctional officers are out to get him, and possibly even set up the attack ... something the jail denies.
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The report says the Ramsey County Sheriff&aposs Office must also facilitate and implement training for correctional officers on how to accommodate inmates with religious headwear.
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To undermine opposition to prison closures in New York — where successful lobbying by the correctional officers' union has kept nearly empty prisons open across the state — Gov.
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Correctional officers and inmates repeatedly approach him, but each time, he's left in the yard alone, appearing to struggle on the ground and crawling toward the prison.
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Multiple guards were taken hostage by inmates Wednesday at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware, a Correctional Officers Association of Delaware official tells PEOPLE.
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About a quarter of the government has been affected by the shutdown, including correctional officers, Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and transportation security officers.
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Correctional officers ordered the inmates to stop fighting and proceeded to fire "less-than-lethal" rounds to stop the brawl, the Union-Tribune reported, citing state officials.
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He tells me it almost makes him feel like he's home—or at least somewhere where he isn't surrounded by concrete, correctional officers, and 2,500 other inmates.
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They also have allowed retired correctional officers to come back on a part-time basis to ease the staffing issues at hard-to-staff prisons, Young said.
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Some correctional officers, who generally work eight-hour shifts, said they had been instructed to stay for a second shift, sometimes with only a few minutes' notice.
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According to what several inmates told investigators, Smith defied correctional officers who told him to stay out of the office for fear he would track blood inside.
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The system has trouble hiring new officers because correctional officers in Mississippi are among the lowest-paid in their profession, with a mean hourly wage of $14.83.
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The Bureau of Labor and Statistics says there are almost half a million correctional officers in the US as of 2014, and that figure is projected to grow.
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Incarcerated people want correctional officers to see them as humans — not as numbers, not as inmates, not as inmate No. 5, but as a person with a name.
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This reality, in turn, contributes to higher stress rates and related injuries experienced by correctional officers, no doubt exacerbating tenuous recruiting and retention shortages already affecting the profession.
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Soldiers exposed to torture during wartime occasionally bring those techniques back to the United States when they reenter civilian life as detectives, correctional officers, or private security guards.
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Two of the correctional officers who were guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he killed himself are expected to face federal criminal charges this week, the Associated Press reported Monday.
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Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined the offer.
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Another reported that the cells were "probably 50 degrees at most" and that correctional officers were told they would be fired if they provided the inmates with clothing.
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Correctional officers in the Special Housing Unit (SHU), like the facility where Epstein was held, are overloaded with assignments even before you factor in mandatory overtime and augmentation.
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The BOP has taken steps to halt the spread of coronavirus, including restricting inmate transfers and subjecting correctional officers and others entering federal prison facilities to temperature checks.
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Capital punishment is costly, offers no proven deterrent benefit and delays healing for victims' family members, while also traumatizing correctional officers and risking the execution of innocent people.
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Kodak Black says he's been living in hell behind bars, and he seems to be blaming correctional officers for much of his misfortune ... straight from the horse's mouth.
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"Correctional officers were forced to react to his aggressiveness in order to protect themselves and maintain the safety and security of others in the facility," the statement said.
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But the correctional officers [COs] will treat him with privileges because most of them never ever been around people of that caliber that lived that quality of life.
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Then Holman's correctional officers joined in the action to address overcrowding and understaffing, staging a protest of their own with nearly a dozen quitting or going on leave.
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In an interview with Global News, Erez Raz, a spokesperson for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees said that correctional officers go through training to deal with attempted escapes.
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Police unions and correctional officers' unions, which have stood in the way of reform-minded policy initiatives in states and cities across the country, have been exempt as targets.
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In their complaints, a disturbing picture emerged of Bond targeting Native American women in their twenties and early thirties, often while other correctional officers were aware of his actions.
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That night, mismanagement and lack of correctional officers meant that only 18 guards watched over 750 inmates, and 10 of them were working overtime, while one post remained vacant.
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Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records, according to sources.
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Nearly two-dozen former corrections officials from other states sent an open letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson about the potential harm to the mental health of correctional officers.
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They must address the woefully inadequate wages of correctional officers that lag far behind those of other law enforcement officers in the Department of Justice and elsewhere in government.
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VICE News spoke with correctional officers at multiple Bureau of Prisons facilities who described a system that is underprepared for the crisis and already on the brink of disaster.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two correctional officers accused of covering up their failure to check on financier Jeffrey Epstein before he hanged himself will face an April 20 trial date.
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Democrats estimated that some 420,000 workers would fall into that category, including FBI agents, prison correctional officers and Homeland Security employees such as TSA and Customs and Border security.
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I always had someone from the press office with me, but it took a while before they would let me interview people without having several correctional officers (COs) right there.
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Correctional officers have one of the highest rates of injuries — often the result of confrontations with jail and prison inmates — among jobs tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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During one of her stints in jail, she claims, she found out just how unprepared correctional officers were to deal with the often physically and emotionally traumatic aspects of pregnancy.
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For a number of reasons -- such as being unable to afford gas or childcare -- some correctional officers at that and other facilities have called out sick for their unpaid shifts.
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Failure to adequately fund our prisons will mean BOP using other BOP staffers like food service foremen, secretaries, and plumbers who would regularly have to perform duties of correctional officers.
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Two correctional officers at an Ohio jail pleaded guilty Tuesday to beating a mentally ill inmate strapped to a chair, in a gruesome assault that was captured on surveillance video.
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My organization is trying to do its part by providing prisoner rehabilitation programs in U.S. jails nationwide with inmates of all ages as well as correctional officers and law enforcement.
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In the early hours of Tuesday they, along with 31 other cuffed-and-shackled prisoners were loaded on a transport bus being driven by Correctional Officers Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue.
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Over the course of my 22019 visits to date, interactions with victims, correctional officers and inmates have become a central part of my efforts to develop meaningful criminal justice policy changes.
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Surveillance footage released by the family's attorney depicts Capers repeatedly struggled to rise to his feet with correctional officers approaching him several times without giving him medical treatment, according to CNN.
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At one federal prison in the southern US, the warden and other senior staffers recently gathered correctional officers to "rally the troops," one of two employees who described the meeting said.
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SYDNEY, Australia — For almost three years, the family of an Indigenous Australian man who died in a Sydney prison complex after being pinned down by correctional officers has waited for answers.
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In a statement, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents guards, said the settlement with the civil liberties union had made the prisons more dangerous.
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The older kids would set the younger kids on one another, while guards stood by egging them on, and the correctional officers would tear into all of us with racist abuse.
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Training, not only for correctional officers, but also for all personnel in the jail and prison systems that have contact with the mentally ill, needs to be conducted to increase understanding.
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But finding enough correctional officers to meet security needs is harder for prisons in rural areas like Pasquotank and nearby Bertie Correctional Institution, where a guard was beaten to death in April.
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About an hour later, a staff member from the facility's school system also began feeling unwell, the statement said, and then a school teacher and three more correctional officers reported feeling poorly.
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It also impacts the safety and well-being of our nation's correctional officers, who find themselves the victims of more non-fatal violent encounters than any other profession, outside of police officers.
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The AP reported that the correctional officers who were supposed to watch over Epstein — the staffers who reportedly fell asleep — were working extreme overtime shifts to cover staff shortages, and were exhausted.
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Benign as these materials may seem to anyone familiar with tabletop gaming, many inmates will tell you it's not uncommon for correctional officers to mistake their gaming materials for something more nefarious.
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Ms. Burkhart said that given the time that had passed, many of the correctional officers involved in the episode were no longer working at the prison and that its administration had changed.
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A shortage of correctional officers has become chronic in the Trump administration, leaving some prison workers feeling ill-equipped and unsafe on the job, according to a recent New York Times investigation.
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Late on Sunday, Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, told Reuters that he learned the formerly powerful producer had tested positive for the virus.
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Prisons that depend on correctional officers to regularly work extreme overtime, or call on non-security staff to fill vacant officer posts only add to the burden of our brave correctional workers.
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Through augmentation, staff who are not correctional officers -- including secretaries, teachers, nurses, and cooks -- perform the duties of officers, including supervising inmates in the housing units, on the recreation yards, and elsewhere.
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Cuts are occurring even though Congress increased the bureau's budget for salaries and expenses by $106 million this year, and both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have called for hiring more correctional officers.
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In interviews, a number of women also said it appeared that some of the female inmates were trying to initiate sexual contact with correctional officers, for reasons ranging from loneliness to exploitation.
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Mr. Gansler cited Mr. Rosenstein's work on the Black Guerrilla Family case in Maryland, an investigation into gang activity at Baltimore city jails that resulted in corruption charges against many correctional officers.
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Geoffrey Klopp, president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, reportedly said he had been told that inmates at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna had taken prison guards hostage.
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Many of the discussions in the Facebook group referenced Hampton, who has filed two lawsuits against the department alleging abuse and mistreatment by correctional officers as a result of her gender identity.
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Kodak cites several physical altercations he's gotten into with different inmates over the past several months, many of which he claims were either escalated by correctional officers on hand or neglected altogether.
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He looks sidewise at the correctional officers, and when he is sure they aren't looking, he puckers his lips to fit them through the iron grid separating him from her, and they kiss.
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"The offenders are being transported by TDCJ buses, and are accompanied by correctional officers and other staff members who have reported to work to assist in the evacuations," the state prison agency said.
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" Madison claims other correctional officers helped Johnson cover up his acts, and when one female corrections officer spoke up about the alleged assaults, Johnson "found ways to justify removing her from the facility.
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Monalisa Johnson, one of the participants in the show's second season, wasn't a fan of cops or correctional officers before she started this experiment, and her experience only solidified the way she feels.
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For example, inmates in Arizona State Prison claim that basic hygiene supplies like toilet paper are lacking, and many of the correctional officers are indifferent in their response to addressing this basic need.
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Law enforcement officers at the Justice Department will also be expected to continue working over the holidays without pay, including nearly 2000,000 correctional officers, 14,000 F.B.I. agents, and 4,000 Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
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The police continue to search for his killer, with the help of video footage and a $10,000 reward from the correctional officers' union for information that leads to the person's arrest and conviction.
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Female correctional officers are found guilty of sexual misconduct with inmates at higher rates than their male counterparts, which according to some prison employees adds to the belief that women do not belong.
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In 13 indictments unsealed this week, prosecutors accused 51 people of participating in the scheme, including 15 current or former correctional officers and 19 current or former inmates at Autry State Prison in Pelham.
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"The suspect dropped his weapon and was held at gunpoint while other deputies rescued the two injured correctional officers by dragging them out of the lobby to ambulances waiting outside," the Sheriff's Office said.
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"The complaint alleges that beginning in 2009, MDOC discriminated against female correctional officers on the basis of sex at its only prison for female inmates, Huron Valley," the Justice Department said in a statement.
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In a nod to Democrats, the bill approved in committee no longer includes language that would have allowed certain law enforcement officials and correctional officers to carry a concealed firearm in all 2628 states.
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The relatives of Jonathan Narain, the officer who was killed, and dozens of correctional officers, some dressed in uniform, packed the courtroom and hallway of Queens Criminal Court in support of the slain officer.
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That includes about 53,000 TSA employees, nearly 45,000 staff at national parks or forests as well as nearly 17,000 correctional officers at federal prisons and thousands of specialists involved in weather forecasting and food inspection.
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But according to a lawsuit against the state's Department of Corrections, his life was cut short when he was stabbed inside his cell, dragged into the prison yard by correctional officers and left to die.
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The show was about the correctional officers who policed it, the government officials who tried to hinder it, the doctors and priests who tried to heal it, and the prisoners who tried to destroy it.
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Her trip to the California capital comes several months after she advocated for an assembly bill that barred male correctional officers being able to conduct pat-down searches on female inmates, according to the Bee.
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After weeks of anxious waiting, each day now brings news of new coronavirus cases among correctional officers and incarcerated people: in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, in Leesburg, Georgia, in Waupun, Wisconsin, in Oakdale, Louisiana.
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Prosecutors say that Noel and Thomas, the only correctional officers on duty in Epstein's unit the night before he was found dead, failed to carry out checks on Epstein and falsely recorded that they had.
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On a recent visit to Washington state's Corrections Center for Women, #FREEAMERICA and a delegation of 30 labor leaders from the AFL-CIO talked to people serving time, to counselors, correctional officers, and other facility staff.
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A South Carolina woman reportedly filed lawsuit against the state Department of Corrections Thursday, alleging that after her son was stabbed in his cell, correctional officers dragged him to the yard and left him to die.
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Ms. Ivey said the department had increased the prison budget in recent years, given raises to corrections officers and requested $31 million to hire 500 more correctional officers and increase pay in the coming fiscal year.
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As Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer was testifying to Congress last week, reports began to circulate about the indictments of two correctional officers regarding the falsification of records in the Jeffrey Epstein suicide.
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Rogers police Chief Jeff Beahen, president of the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association, said correctional officers deserve credit for choosing to work among sometimes violent populations with inherent risks while equipped with few tools to protect themselves.
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The workers considered "essential" and being asked to continue working without pay include more than 16,000 Bureau of Prisons correctional officers, 53,000 TSA workers, 54,000 Customs and Border Protection workers, and 42,000 members of the Coast Guard.
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Choi, wearing a grey prison uniform and a surgical mask, was brought in to the special prosecutor's office from a jail where she is in detention, pushed by a throng of correctional officers through a media scrum.
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She was acquitted in May 27, but says she was subject to sexual and mental abuse by correctional officers (COs), who routinely called her a "baby killer," and, she claims, even tore up photographs of her children.
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Late last year, the EyeDetect was introduced in the US. According to Mickelsen, it's now being used to vet law enforcement and correctional officers at a state level in Utah, Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, and Florida, among others.
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Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined the offer, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Herr's family in US District Court earlier this month, Herr told the correctional officers that she was a heroin addict and that she would soon be going through detoxification.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was required to follow the law, Section 50-a of the state's Civil Rights Code, which shields the disciplinary histories of police officers, correctional officers and firefighters from public view.
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The posts continued even after three state correctional officers were put on leave following an Injustice Watch report in September about posts on their public Facebook pages that mocked members of the LGBTQ community or disparaged homosexuality.
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The Associated Press requested the data from the sheriff and state prison authorities the day after the Elizabeth City prison&aposs failed escape, in which two correctional officers, vocational instructor Veronica Darden and maintenance worker Geoffrey Howe died.
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The significance of these two riots is very important for those who are behind bars today who feel that they still have inadequate medical care, they still fit in overcrowded facilities without the requisite number of correctional officers.
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Choi Soon-sil, who has been indicted for meddling in state affairs through her friendship with impeached President Park Geun-hye, made the protest at the special prosecutor's office, before being pushed into an elevator by correctional officers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was launching an investigation into whether Alabama's prisons for men do an adequate job of protecting prisoners from physical harm and sexual abuse by fellow inmates and correctional officers.
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Erez Raz, a union official and former correctional officer in Alberta, said overcrowding and the "revolving door" of pre-trial detainees made it difficult for correctional officers to keep people safe and created a pressure cooker situation for inmates.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Three weeks after the deadliest attempted prison breakout in North Carolina history, prison and law enforcement officials still can&apost quantify the scope of the violence that correctional officers at the understaffed prison had been confronting daily.
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Neither the inmates nor the correctional officers know that they are really there to let Noel—and the viewers at home—know exactly what is going down behind bars when the inmates and COs think no one is watching.
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Under her parole conditions, Corby had to keep in close contact with correctional officers while living at the Bali home of her sister Mercedes, trying to stay out of the public eye as the media tracked her every move.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death, but the officers have declined the offer, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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While the National Sheriff's Association recently released a guide to using MAT in jails, a 2016 survey of correctional officers in nine states found that officers viewed MAT as a "treatment of last resort" rather than evidence-based medicine.
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In her lawsuit, Hampton alleges she was sexually and physically abused by correctional officers at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center in Pinckneyville and the Menard Correctional Center in Randolph County due to her gender identity and as retaliation for complaints against officers.
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Many employees names' are redacted in the data, including all correctional officers, nuclear engineers, and certain other occupations, as well as everyone who works for the Department of Defense, the Postal Service, the IRS, and a handful of other agencies.
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This software, according to the company's website, is used by several state and county jails to streamline the process of conducting and logging inmate check-ins by correctional officers, and the reports it generates contain a variety of potentially sensitive information.
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As happened in Italy, mounting tensions inside prisons, where anxious residents no longer have access to family visits or the proper supplies to protect themselves, create security risks that will be compounded by short staffing when correctional officers fall sick.
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These staff are critical members of our security contingent who risk their lives to make sure vital duties are performed, but they are ill equipped to replace experienced correctional officers who know the inmates and the responsibilities of their assigned posts.
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Until they pay correctional officers a decent wage, or strip-search them every day, there'll always be a few guards who will take the risk of bringing in small quantities of drugs to sell, given the enormous paydays at stake.
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We don't see the regular-population prisoners who work in the kitchen unless we bend down to look through the serving window, and this is frowned upon by the gray and black-uniformed correctional officers, or C.O.s, who usually lurk somewhere nearby.
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Correctional officers at Marion were first tipped off about the computers' existence after Websense, a security platform used by businesses and government, notified system administrators of excessive internet usage by a particular computer on the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's network.
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There's Brandon Clancy, a kind of straight-edge white boy who went to prison in Chino, California and had to deal with not only the racial dynamics, but also treatment by the correctional officers who wield a lot of power in disturbing ways.
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A poll conducted in June by the Alaska Correctional Officers Association (ACOA), just weeks after Begich entered the race, showed Dunleavy leading with 22019 percent of the vote, while Begich and Walker took second and third, with 33 percent and 23 percent, respectively.
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But according to a fact sheet released by the Democratic staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee, more than 420,000 government workers are expected to work without pay if a partial shutdown occurs, including more than 41,000 federal law enforcement and correctional officers.
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Correctional officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were charged with four counts of making false records as well as a conspiracy charge, according to an indictment that was released Tuesday by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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As for the October attack, you'll recall one of the correctional officers claimed Josh stated right afterward he knew the guards didn't set him up ... but Garson denied that and doubled down, saying the guard's claim is a "cover your ass" statement.
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For example, at two of the three sites visited by OIG investigators, correctional officers were found to be housing inmates in Special Housing Units, or isolation cells, until beds in general population became available—even though those inmates hadn't committed any behavioral violations.
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Weinstein, 68, was put in isolation less than a week after he was transferred to a maximum security prison in upstate New York, according to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, who spoke with NBC.
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"You can't keep a 203- to 3-foot distance from inmates, and they can't keep that distance themselves," said Ray Coleman Jr., a teacher at the federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, and president of the local union representing the facility's correctional officers.
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According to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, Weinstein has been placed in isolation following his diagnosis, and added that three state corrections officers also tested positive after coming into contact with infected individuals.
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"As we watched the horrific manhunt this week of the two inmates that killed two correctional officers and were captured last night, we all know that Monday could have ended differently for our officer," the office wrote in a Facebook post on Friday.
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"Our correctional officers have one of the most difficult jobs in all of public safety, and we will not let the criminal behavior of the few tarnish the great work of the nearly 5,000 dedicated officers who serve with distinction every single day."
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While all states have laws explicitly barring correctional officers — prison and jail guards, parole and probation officers — from having sex with people under their authority, the push to expand these laws to cover police officers and sheriff's deputies in the field only began recently.
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When some inmates complained about the conditions to relatives in phone calls and emails last week, the women said, correctional officers ordered the inmates into lockdown, prohibiting them from leaving their two-bed cells and instituting severe restrictions on their communication with the outside world.
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"As we watched the horrific man hunt this week of the two inmates that killed two correctional officers and were captured last night, we all know that Monday could have ended differently for our officer," the sheriff's office said on Facebook after the incident.
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TMZ obtained the criminal report filed for Josh's crazy jailhouse brawl from last month and in it, one of the correctional officers involved claims Josh said right afterward he knew the guards didn't set him up ... or allow the attack to go down on purpose.
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Attorney General William Barr lifted the hiring freeze in April, and sweeping federal reforms and sentencing guideline revisions have continued to clear out prison cells and shorten prison time for thousands of people convicted of drug crimes, partly lessening the need for new correctional officers.
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Hudson County's relationship with ICE first came to attention after activists demanded the county back out of a federal program known as 287(g), which allowed the correctional officers to act as ICE agents and identify undocumented immigrants who were being held on criminal charges.
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The president of the union that represents West Virginia correctional officers did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Friday, and a woman who answered the phone at the union office said the organization would not comment because the incident remained under investigation.
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"Our correctional officers have one of the most difficult jobs in all of public safety, and we will not let the criminal behavior of the few tarnish the great work of the nearly 5,85033 dedicated officers who serve with distinction every single day," Gov.
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But with several state governments pursuing legislative changes that would reduce prison terms and provide alternatives to incarceration in order to cut down on the high costs associated with maintaining prisons, fewer correctional officers, jailers, bailiffs, and, thus, their supervisors will be needed in the future.
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We'll also be studying the extent to which solitary confinement is used, who is placed there, and why—as well as the impact it has on the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of correctional officers—through new funding from the DOJ's National Institute of Justice.
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Washington (CNN)Conditions behind the walls of the nation's federal prisons are degrading under the government shutdown, where some correctional officers are being forced to work extended shifts, inmate programs are being canceled, and medical and maintenance workers are being asked to fill in for guards.
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Mr. Trump's apparent indifference to the Transportation Security Administration agents, correctional officers, scientists and other federal employees caught in the cross hairs of a political standoff presents a remarkable contrast with how other presidents have made a point of trying to demonstrate their empathy during other shutdowns.
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Prisoner rehabilitation programs must involve the entire criminal justice community — incarcerated adults; juveniles and their families; ex-offenders; victims of violence and crime; correctional officers; and law enforcement administrators, while also focusing on the important roles of various applications of meditation and stress management, among other areas.
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During Pulinario's sentence, women inmates settled a class-action lawsuit that changed pat-frisk policies in the state so that female correctional officers would perform them whenever possible over male officers, and inmates like Pulinario who had a history of sexual trauma could demand a woman every single time.
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Keeping the MCC's inmates from killing themselves is complicated by staffing shortages so severe that correctional officers often work so many overtime shifts in a row that they don't even go home, and employees who have other jobs in the jail are often pulled in to do the work of guards.
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William Barr, America's new attorney general, ought to seek court intervention if the state fails to follow the Justice Department's recommendations — which include hiring up to 500 correctional officers, revising security protocols and addressing basic housing deficiencies, such as bathrooms and living areas in disrepair, that rob inmates of their dignity.
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When Mr. Guzmán, who twice escaped from Mexican prisons, was transferred to Manhattan in 2275, the number of workers in the wing, which can house about a half-dozen inmates, was increased to at least four people, including two correctional officers, according to three people with knowledge of the arrangement.
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Geoff Klopp, president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, said the takeover of Building C at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center on Wednesday was no spontaneous outburst, but a planned act by inmates who had conducted "dry runs" of misbehavior to gauge how well officers could contain them.
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However, it's been some time since the previous chapter of the Jenji Kohan-created comedy-drama dropped on the streaming platform and some viewers may need a refresher on what's going on with the previous and current inmates and correctional officers of Litchfield Penitentiary (this is especially understandable because the cast is huge).
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From January 2017, when President Trump took office, to the end of 2018, the Bureau of Prisons' staffing numbers dropped by more than 4,600 people—33 percent of its total staff—including correctional officers, psychologists, administrators, or anyone else who works in the prisons, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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We spoke with several incarcerated people who witnessed correctional officers beating Mr. McMillan inside a cell block before carrying him to the infirmary, where they continued to assault him before performing C.P.R. I spoke with one man who was advised by an officer not to slip on Mr. McMillan's blood on the floor.
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The children of Terrill Thomas, who died of dehydration in a Milwaukee jail in 2016 after correctional officers turned off his cell's water supply for a week, will receive $6.75 million in a settlement with Milwaukee County and Armor Correctional Health Services, a private company that provided health care at the jail.
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"The number of officers has continued to dwindle as the agency's pay has not kept pace with industry salaries and other professions," a DOC news release said, adding that officials would like to raise correctional officers' starting pay from $25,650 to $30,370, which would bring Mississippi in line with its four neighboring states.
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"The number of officers has continued to dwindle as the agency's pay has not kept pace with industry salaries and other professions," a DOC news release said, adding that officials would like to raise correctional officers' pay from $25,650 to $30,370, which would bring Mississippi in line with its four neighboring states.
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"During the night, instead of completing the required counts and rounds, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, the defendants, were seated at the correctional officers' desk in the SHU common area (…approximately 15 feet from Epstein's cell), used the computers, and moved around the SHU common area," the grand jury and prosecutors alleged.
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They also suggest that all women be tested for pregnancy upon entering a correctional facility, that correctional officers and all prison staff members be trained specifically in the unique medical and emotional needs of pregnant and laboring women, and that women be able to move unrestricted during labor for the purpose of healthy birth and pain management.
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But as the shortage of correctional officers has grown chronic under President Trump — and the practice of drawing upon other workers has become routine — many prisons have been operating in a perpetual state of staffing turmoil, leaving some workers feeling ill-equipped and unsafe on the job, according to interviews and internal documents from the Bureau of Prisons.
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The letter also asks for clarifications on both BOP and MCC policies on housing inmates accused of sex offenses and whether it was followed in Epstein's case, as well as information about the specific correctional officers tasked with monitoring Epstein on Friday and Saturday and how long they had been on their shifts at the point that Epstein's body was discovered.
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The report, released online last week and referring to events from a 10-day period in August 2013, provided a look at how correctional officers at the maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward subjected prisoners to sexual embarrassment and harassment, as well as situations of extreme discomfort, seemingly as punishment for two incidents that had taken place earlier in the month.
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This includes providing treatment in crowded dormitories huddled in a corner in an attempt to provide some confidentiality; sitting in a makeshift office trying to talk over the loud yelling of inmates and correctional officers just outside the door; or conducting group therapy in a room where those participating are shackled to the wall and floor for the clinician's and other inmates' safety.
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" Days before Bulger's death, lawmakers alleged prison understaffing The deaths of Thorne and Porter also caught the attention of West Virginia's US senators, Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito, and three other lawmakers, who wrote on October 25 -- five days before Bulger died -- that they were concerned about the Bureau of Prisons' "failure to follow clear congressional directives to hire more full-time correctional officers.
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The Treasury as well as the departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, the Interior, State, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Commerce and Justice will all shutter if Congress fails to pass seven remaining spending bills, and hundreds of thousands of federal employees deemed "essential" — including correctional officers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and Weather Service forecasters — will be forced to work over the holidays without pay, according to data compiled by Senate Democrats.
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While scanning the documents on the public website, Gizmodo found SSN4 information for employees at the Kansas Departments of State, Transportation, Education, Labor, Health and Environment, and Aging and Disability Services; staff members at Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Pittsburg State University, and the University of Kansas; serving members of the Coordinating Council on Early Childhood Development, the Human Rights Commission, the Board of Veterinary Examiners, and the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board; as well as district attorneys, correctional officers, and other law enforcement officials—just to name a few.
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It also would put in place a laundry list of minor, seemingly common sense (or at least common decency) requirements that would make a world of difference for women behind bars and their families on the other side, including a guarantee that the BOP update its policies to ban the shackling and solitary confinement of pregnant women; train correctional officers on how to interact with victims of trauma; cease charging inmates for phone calls and require video conferencing at every facility, free of charge; as well as enable more contact between incarcerated women and their families, among other reforms.
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